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Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team
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More expressive power to C#
I would like to have many things, see:
http://www.slideshare.net/thorium/the-pain-points-of-cAlso:
Let's say I want to make methods: myItem.Validate().Save().SendForwardInProcess(), I would like to have myItem subtypes to support this process: validatedMyItem and savedMyItem. But this means a lot of code! For example: I can't construct easily validatedMyItem with same property values.So:
- "func"-keyword to be like "var" for "Func<...>"
- Pattern matching (=just easier way to type else if else if else if)
- Easier way to transform instance to sub-type4 votes -
Compiling 32/64 bit code with cl
Could somebody at Microsoft write a driver for cl, so that 32 bit and 64 bit code could be compiled via a command line switch, instead of having to use vcvarsall to constantly switch back and forth between two different programs.
7 votes -
add a "Find / Show in Solution Explorer" option to the context menu in the editor window
when clicked it would bring the current file into view in the solution explorer tree, so you don't have to hunt it down to check it in.
13 votes -
Merge Expression Blend and Visual Studio so I don't have to go back and forth between two different tools to program Silverlight and WPF
Merge Expression Blend and Visual Studio so I don't have to go back and forth between two different tools to program Silverlight and WPF. Its crazy to have to use two different IDEs. Blend has a terrible Xaml editor and V.S. doesn't work well with behaviors, templates, and design time data.Take the good stuff from each one and put them together. Please!
34 votes -
Give users the ability to see what there screen will look like and make changes to the GUI as if building a windows form.
Basically give users the ability to see in a GUI the screen they are working on, so they can better design there applications GUI without having to run the build every five seconds.
5 votes -
Zipping support from .Net
Could you please include sources of Ionic.zip.utils (under ms pl) to .Net platform and speed up his implementation?
Zipping+AES Encryption is very popular. And used almost everywhere. Comparing to wrapper of 7-zip compression takes longer in 2 times and with begger size, but API of ionic is very great.
27 votes -
Integration and IntelliSense for the Development with PHP
To develope web projects not only with asp
21 votes -
Datagrid column validation-there should be an option to update target(view) using binding expression of any column in the datarowview.
Assume there are 3 columns in a WPF datagrid, column 1 is being edited, during column validation column 2 will be updated from a table. At present there is no way to bring that in to datagrid view. so we need an option to push the source data to target(view). At present only changes to the editing column will be reflected in the view. We can get the editing row during column validation but we can't get binding expression of columns other than the editing one. If we get that we can accomplish the said task by calling updatetarget. Also…
1 vote -
Ability to cache EntitySets for reuse
Most LoB applications have static data that seldom changes, but currently, LightSwitch still hits the database when it needs to display this data - as a source for AutoComplete Boxes, Grids, etc. Example of these entities are Departments, store locations, Territories, etc.
I propose to add a check box to the Entity designer to allow that EntitySet to be cached from the first time it is used, or even asynchronously as the application starts up.
35 votes -
1 vote
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Kodu
Publish a .NET Kodu API for 3rd party extensions written in C#/VB:
- figures
- physics engine
- algorithms of all kind.This should enable us to develop all kinds of 3D figures as well as strategy games.
Kodu is an excellent environment to teach the ideas of programming. However the smooth path to VS/.NET coding which would be attractive to students is missing.
21 votes -
Add an easy to use snippet editor
Snippets can be VERY time-saving for frontend developers. A snippet editor where one can create your own snippets like in TextMate/Notepad++ would be loved by many.
A snippet with trigger "mysnippet" could look something like this
<div class="$1[defaultvalue]">
<div class="$2[defaultvalue]">
<h1>$3[defaultvalue]</h1>
$end $select
</div>
</div>where the $1,$2, $3 indicates the "tab-index" order, [text] indicates the default inserted value, $end indicates select position when exiting the snippet, and $select indicates where a selected code would be added if you select some code and add the snippet around it.
Even better, you could add a list of possible values that will…
1 vote -
Textarea in find and replace dialog box
I have beening using Visual Studio 2010 and asp.net for 1.5 years.
Before I had beening used Adobe Dreamviewer for our old asp files.
And There was a property for find and replace in Dreamviewer.It was using textarea for find and replace box. Not input
box. So we used it for changing a block of code just copying from
the code and replacing it to the textarea section in the find and replace dialog box.We can use this propery using regular expression in Visual
Studio. But it is very difficult. And some times we have to use symbol…6 votes -
Attributes for Data Driven Unit Tests
Please enhance Visual Studio Unit Tests for better support of data driven unit test, like NUnit TestCase attribute.
[TestCase(1, 1, 2)]
[TestCase(1, 2, 3)]
[TestCase(1, 4, 5)]
public void test_Add(int x, int y, int result)
{
Assert.AreEqual(MyUtils.Add(x, y), result);
}Such an attribute is urgently needed for testing methods with several test cases.
26 votes -
Migrate Team projects from private TFS to TFS Azure
First step, to move sources from a team project on a private TFS server to a team project in TFSPreview/Azure
Second, to migrate the structure of the team project and data depending on the amount to transfer7 votes -
Command Argument history capability
The property pages Command Argument entry must be changed frequently during program debug and testing. Having a drop down history list of previous commands would make switching between frequently used command arguments much quicker and less error prone.
4 votes -
tf unshelve accept /user: param (or other cmdline option) to come up with that user and their shelvesets populated in the selection UI
One of the situations that happens often is that someone on my team will ask me to review something they just shelved, but typically they either don't remember the name off-hand (especially if they're asking verbally) or it's a long/complicated name for clarity. Currently the simplest method I know of to get to this shelveset (99% of the time, the latest shelveset they've created) is to 'tf unshelve', shift-tab twice (or alt-n) to get up to the owner name textbox, type their name in, hit enter (which refreshes the list and thankfully moves the focus down to the first entry…
8 votes -
Add many-to-many relation support
Today it is a lot of manually coding to build a application with a many-to-many relation.
It would be nice to have more out of the box support for this.187 votesThanks for this suggestion. We’ve added it to our product backlog and will consider it for a future release.
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Allow developer to copy/paste layout hierarchy between screens.
Often I'm finding screens may have similar custom layouts, but I need to build each one from scratch. I have to flip back and forth between screens (see my other sugg. "Allow developer to have multiple screen designers open simultaneously."), and manually tweak the hierarchy to get screens to be consistent with each other. I'd like to be able to select a node in one design screen, copy it, and paste it into another.
205 votesThanks for this suggestion. We’ve added this to our product backlog and will consider this for a future release.
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Display large integers with digits grouped
In the watch, data tips, etc windows, show integers with the digits grouped, by 3 if decimal representation, 4 if hex.
For example, instead of "1234567890", display as "1 234 567 890". Instead of "0x0000123456789abc", display as "0x1234 5678 9abc" (note, leading 0s should be removed).These could be user-settable options.
1 vote
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